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biting his hand, Hxematopota sp., was the only Dipteron 
taken. 
If the left bank yielded us but a small bag it was some 
considerable consolation, at all events to the fortunate 
observer, to have the opportunity of contemplating from 
a distance of not more than #00 yards a family of 
Hippopotami disporting themselves in the water. 
By the kindness of the Chartered Company’s Forester, 
Mr. C.. E. F. Allen, one of us was enabled to land on two 
of the wooded islands some miles above the Falls. Ento- 
mologically the results were disappointing, but here again 
Hippopotami came to the rescue, for the thicket on one 
of the islands was traversed in all directions by their paths, 
while in an open space lay the fairly recent bones of one 
of the uncouth monsters. The ubiquitous Limnas chrysip- 
pus was represented by a male fly, but no Acrva was taken, 
and the only Nymphalines were Precis natalica, Feld., with 
ocellated under-side, and a Veptis which eluded capture. 
The common white of these islands was Lelenois severina, 
Cram., of which five “dry” males were taken; but JB. 
gidica, Godt., was nearly as common, and two of each sex 
were brought home. All the gidica from the Zambesi 
were of extreme dry type, drier than its congener. No 
Terias were taken and but three Zeracoli, all males, two of 
T. antigone, Boisd., one of evenina, Wallgrn. Of Hronia 
leda, Dbl., a female of dry type was taken. The only 
Satyrids were four Yphthima asterope, Klug, var. norma, 
Westw. The Lycznids were even scarcer, as a solitary 
Zizera lysimon, Hiibn., was the only Blue. 
A Geometer, an “ Emerald” with red chequered fringes, 
Comibena leucospilata, Walk., was the only moth taken, 
while as unfortunately “other orders” would appear to 
have been even more than ordinarily neglected, the 
captures were limited to a single individual of the evil- 
smelling ant, Paltothyreus tarsatus, Fabr., and a pretty 
black and white two-winged fly, Zabanus sp. 
Mr. Allen was good enough to give us four insects taken 
in a druggist’s shop at Livingstone, five miles above the 
Falls: they were two flies, one of them a large, fierce- 
looking fellow, Zabanus sp. a red-bodied wasp Odynerus 
carinatulus, Sauss., 2, and a Malacoderm beetle, Melyris 
nobilis, Gerst. 
The easiest way down to the river at its lower level, 
below the Falls, is by the gorge known as the PALM KLoor, 
